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Question: Long pieces :: Total Votes:35 Poll choices Votes Statistics yes 30  [85.71%] No 0  [0.00%] I don't care 5  [14.29%] Guests cannot vote

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Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 12 2005, 18:45 I think he should album with the structure of Heaven's Open, songs would be remplaced by instrumantals that would be somethin'. -------------- Take the Time Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Nov. 12 2005, 19:00 Yep (well, it's not that he SHOULD, but it would be nice) Something in the style of Crises please! -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 12 2005, 19:17 Quote (Piltdownboy on horseback 22 @ Nov. 12 2005, 19:00) Something in the style of Crises please! agreed -------------- Take the Time Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Nov. 12 2005, 21:11 Mike actually asked this at the Tubular Bells 2003 press conference in Spain. "I can do either" he said, offering long or short pieces. The vote was for long... Seems he decided that even though it's what modern listeners to his music seem to want to hear, the format is too old fashioned, too bound to the 70s. Being bound to the 70s didn't seem to stop him from re-recording Tubular Bells of course, but I think we're not meant to question Mike's logic like that. I do agree that it would be a good idea, though. Back to top

Legend Group: Members Posts: 70 Joined: Oct. 2005 Posted: Nov. 14 2005, 16:13 I would love the concept of a long 20 minute composition and say 5-6 shorter "songs" - instrumental or not. Just like Crises, Islands, FMO etc. Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Nov. 14 2005, 18:32 Yes, certainlyh I found out today?": coolest song ever: fivee miles out!!! yessss   and long pieces yes, with ibird effects, ljust like music fthom the balconY!  love bird effects!!!! hhahahaha -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Nov. 14 2005, 20:43 On both styles Mike can create great music,that's what I do care   -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Nov. 15 2005, 03:29 Sorry about my last post... I was terribly eh, full of eh, ...milk   -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 15 2005, 03:36 Quote (Piltdownboy on horseback 22 @ Nov. 15 2005, 03:29) Sorry about my last post... I was terribly eh, full of eh, ...milk   that's ok     -------------- Take the Time Back to top

Bill Bobaggins Group: Members Posts: 477 Joined: June 2005 Posted: Nov. 15 2005, 09:23 I actually like both styles so don't really care which he does.  I just hope he continues to write and record for many years to come. -------------- Speak friend and enter. Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: Nov. 15 2005, 21:39 I was thinking about this. I could easily say, sure, whatever. Whatever style...whatever makes Mike happy. And on most levels I'd even mean it. But....in my heart of hearts, I wish  he would do something very, very long--even by 70's standards. Complicated, layered, relational, woven into a brand new tapastry design. I want to be wrapped in it and transported where no one has gone before (hmmmm....am I getting this mixed up with the Star Trek intro??) . I want the length of the 70's combined with the now. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 05:12 I like to feel that an album has some kind of cohesion to it, but I don't mind how that's achieved. Tr3sLunas is highly coherent in an imaginative sense, even though it consists of separate pieces, and that never fails to delight me in a very satisfying way. I suppose I've yet to find that coherence in L&S - it seems like a kind of catch-all of bits and pieces, and I do find it loses something from that. But basically I don't know how to vote on this one. Back to top

raven4x4x Group: Members Posts: 1535 Joined: Jan. 2002 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 05:15 Quote (Alan D @ Nov. 16 2005, 18:12) basically I don't know how to vote on this one. Neither do I. He's done albums in both styles which I truely love. So I have no preference. -------------- Thank-you for helping us help you help us all. Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 07:49 Quote (Alan D @ Nov. 16 2005, 05:12) I suppose I've yet to find that coherence in L&S - it seems like a kind of catch-all of bits and pieces, and I do find it loses something from that. But basically I don't know how to vote on this one. I think "Surfing" flows right into "Tears of an Angel", but that is all the cohesiveness or connection I can find. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

timshen Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: Mar. 2001 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 10:15 I definitely vote for the longer tracks - as long as possible :-) I disagree that it's a 70s thing. It wasn't a 70s thing until Mike made it so with Tubular Bells. He can make it a 2000+ thing :-) I do like many of Mike's shorter works but it was really the longer instrumentals that flowed on seamlessly for ages with valley moments and mountainous crescendos that made me fall in love with Mike's music. I love the buildup and layering of intricate, beautiful themes/melodies with the destinctive guitar riffs and multitudinous sounds and surprises hidden in the mix. Roll on the longer works   -------------- Expect Great Things. Attempt Great Things. Back to top

stevenmd779 Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 13:42 I would like to hear a long piece that goes thru a variety of styles such as acoustic, new age, chill out, trance, and rock. It would also be nice without the acoustic, new age, chill out ,and rock part. -------------- "A people who would sacrifice liberty for security will lose both, and deserve neither." Ben Franklin Boogs is fo' da chode man. Back to top

Sonilink Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Nov. 16 2005, 14:29 Quote (hiawatha @ Nov. 16 2005, 07:49) Quote (Alan D @ Nov. 16 2005, 05:12) I suppose I've yet to find that coherence in L&S - it seems like a kind of catch-all of bits and pieces, and I do find it loses something from that. But basically I don't know how to vote on this one. I think "Surfing" flows right into "Tears of an Angel", but that is all the cohesiveness or connection I can find. that's right same mood -------------- Take the Time Back to top

tubularbills Group: Members Posts: 528 Joined: Aug. 2000 Posted: Feb. 06 2006, 19:40 I think long pieces would be good again - but broken into shorter parts. if that makes sense. For example, i still consider TSODE a one huge long 60+ min experience. but having it broken down into shorter parts is great, so i can skip to certain parts. much like TB2003, i like being able to easily skip to certain parts - so i don't have to hold down the search button for eons. or have to keep skipping w/ the curser on winamp or WMP or something. -------------- Terrible, Wonderful, Crazy, Perfect. Back to top

lostrom Group: Members Posts: 53 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Feb. 16 2006, 21:38 Definitely YES. I'm still waiting for a follow-up to Incantations Back to top

stevenmd779 Group: Members Posts: 248 Joined: Aug. 2005 Posted: Feb. 16 2006, 22:07 Hmmmmmmm, I would like to hear a long piece since I listen to an album all the way through irregardless of the lenght of the tracks. Whatever it is, just bring on the keyboards! -------------- "A people who would sacrifice liberty for security will lose both, and deserve neither." Ben Franklin Boogs is fo' da chode man. Back to top

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